IFU is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Copenhagen, Denmark, that specializes in providing equity, mezzanine financing, loans, and guarantees to projects in developing countries. Established in 1967, IFU focuses on creating and financing new businesses, joint ventures between Danish companies and local partners, and acquiring existing ventures. The firm primarily invests in sectors such as commercial services, biofuels, renewable energy, and irrigation systems, with a particular emphasis on climate and agribusiness. Investments are targeted at countries with a low gross national income per capita, as defined by specific criteria, and include regions across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. IFU typically invests between DKK 0.5 million and DKK 100 million and often seeks co-investment opportunities with Danish firms. The firm also supports small and medium-sized enterprises and provides advisory services for business investments in developing markets. With a preference for board membership, IFU aims to exit investments within five to seven years, ensuring a positive return for its stakeholders.

CIBC is a Canadian multinational bank offering a full range of financial services to individuals, small businesses, corporations, and institutions. Its activities span commercial banking, wealth management, asset management, and investment banking, including corporate and investment banking, equity and debt financing, advisory services, and cross-border banking. The organization operates through divisions such as CIBC Bank (providing retail and commercial banking), CIBC Bank USA (Americas-based commercial banking), CIBC World Markets and CIBC Capital Markets (investment banking and capital markets), and asset management units including CIBC Asset Management and CIBC Global Asset Management. CIBC serves clients across North America with offices in Toronto, Chicago and other international locations, and focuses on serving mid-market companies, high net worth individuals, pension plans, and financial institutions. The bank emphasizes long-standing client relationships, community investment, and a broad geographic footprint in Canada and the United States.

The EBRD is an international financial institution founded in 1990 and headquartered in London that provides project financing and advisory services to support private sector development and transformation in emerging markets. It finances banks, industries, and businesses, supports new ventures and investments in existing companies, and helps privatize and restructure municipal services in publicly owned entities. Through its banking and treasury activities, it offers loans, equity and quasi-equity investments, guarantees, and equity funds for smaller enterprises, along with trade finance and loan syndication. It works with commercial partners to invest in private enterprises across sectors including energy, manufacturing, ICT, infrastructure, agribusiness, and real estate, across Europe, the Middle East and beyond, including a significant footprint in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics, and the Caucasus. It provides policy reform dialogue and advisory services to support market modernization, governance, and reform. It has invested over €130 billion in more than 5,000 projects.

SBI Ven Capital is the venture capital arm of SBI Holdings, based in Singapore. Founded in 2007, it targets investments in financial services and technology sectors across Asia.

Marubeni Corporation is a Tokyo-based general trading company, a sogo shosha, that operates as a global trading intermediary across a broad range of sectors. It handles import and export and participates in upstream production and downstream distribution, with activities spanning energy, petroleum, metals, chemicals, minerals, and non-resource businesses such as machinery, food, textiles, real estate, and retail. The company trades and processes a wide array of goods, provides engineering, procurement and construction services, and invests in infrastructure, power generation, and related projects. With a history dating back to the 19th century, Marubeni maintains an extensive international footprint, enabling cross-border sourcing, market development, and supply chain services for customers worldwide.

Avrio Capital is a Calgary-based venture capital and private equity firm that supports commercialization to growth-stage companies, with a focus on food technology, advanced agriculture, industrial bioproducts, and nutraceutical ingredients. It targets Canada and North America, investing roughly CAD 1 million to CAD 10 million and reserving significant capital for follow-on rounds as portfolio companies scale. The firm seeks companies with sales of CAD 1 million to CAD 20 million and prefers to take an active role in its investments. Avrio Capital operates from Alberta, with additional offices in Ontario and Quebec, and has a track record of funding companies across the food and agriculture sectors that address health, wellness, and sustainability challenges.

Enabling Future is a family office backed venture capital firm based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The firm invests across sectors including consumer goods and services, data and enterprise technology, blockchain infrastructure, fintech, and gaming. It supports seed and early-stage companies with capital, strategic guidance, and access to its network, helping entrepreneurs build disruptive, future-oriented businesses.

VenturesOne is a venture capital investment firm established in 1986, with offices in The Hague, Netherlands and Singapore. It focuses on growth-stage technology ventures across sectors including AdTech, artificial intelligence and machine learning, big data, clean tech, cybersecurity, e-commerce, edtech, fintech, healthtech, insurtech, robotics, drones and SaaS. The firm provides capital along with knowledge, networks and operational know-how to help founders scale companies over a three to seven year horizon, typically investing between €100,000 and €3,000,000. VenturesOne was acquired by Unknown Group in 2021.